Epidendrum phragmites A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams 1968 GROUP Pleuranthium SUBGROUP Phragmites Photo by © Sune Holt and Flicker Orchid Photo Website©

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Close Connection Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica in wet rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte with cane-like, erect, slightly flattened, straight stems carrying numerous, all along the stem, seasonally deciduous, fleshy, spreading, ovate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, bilobed, coriaceous, darker green and lustrous above, articulate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on many lateral, arising from the base of the leaf sheaths, subsessile, very short, 1 to 2, simultaneously opening, lip always facing the rachis flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 758 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1158 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide;

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